INWOOD — A restaurant that strove to bring the Meatpacking District’s sensibilities uptown to Inwood closed last week.
The small Dominican-style restaurant Sazones, tucked away on Broadway and surrounded by used car lots, car washes and its culinary competition, a 24-hour doughnut shop called Twin Donut, failed to survive a single year after opening in September 2010.
A vinyl sign over the former restaurant name promises that a new restaurant named La Ceniza, or “the ash” in Spanish, will soon be opening in the place of Sazones at 5085 Broadway, between 216th and 218th streets.
The closing comes on the heels of another failed venture by Sazone's operator, William Segura.
The restaurateur said he planned to open a Brazilian-style steakhouse at the Seaman Arch, a few doors south of Sazones.
That venture ended when Segura stopped paying rent in April, according to court documents and the landlord.
Segura still operates a restaurant and club—Tobaco y Ron and Vin-Tich—under the elevated 1 train on Ninth Avenue.
He did not return repeated calls for comment and the phone number for Sazones is now disconnected.
